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BOARD O F TRUSTEES

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property will be used for construction of the mall and plans to deed it to R u s h Presbyterian-St. Luke's Medical Center, which has agreed to construct and maintain the mall on the conveyed premises. T h e University will condition the conveyance on the perpetual use of the premises for a mall and will reserve to itself a conditional easement in the event the premises ever are required for access to University buildings in the area. The conveyance will require that no permanent structure will be constructed on the premises. The president of the University, with the concurrence of the appropriate administrative officers, recommends adoption of the following resolution conveying the land to the Medical Center Commission in accordance with the foregoing. (Rush-Presbyterian—St. Luke's Medical Center has undertaken to pave and otherwise improve a University access driveway for service to University buildings so that vacated Hermitage Avenue will not be necessary for that purpose.) Resolution Whereas, by ordinance of the City Council of the City of Chicago on December 30, 1980, recorded in the Office of the Recorder of Deeds, Cook County, Illinois, on February 4, 1981, as Document Number 25762553, certain parts of South Hermitage Avenue and West Flournoy Street in the Medical Center District of Chicago were vacated; Whereas, part of said vacated South Hermitage Avenue lies immediately east of property owned by the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois, hereinafter "Board;" Whereas, by terms of said ordinance and pursuant to law, the ownership of the west one half of vacated South Hermitage Avenue contiguous to property owned by the Board has vested in the Board, Whereas, virtually all of the premises Constituting the property owned by the Board contiguous to vacated South Hermitage Avenue were conveyed to it by the Medical Center Commission, a body politic and corporate, hereinafter "Commission," on the condition that it be used for the purposes prescribed in "An act in relation to establishment of a medical center district in the City of Chicago and for the control and management therof," approved June 4, 1941, as amended, 111W III. Rev. Stat. 5001, et seq., hereinafter the "Act," and on the condition that in the event of nonuse of said premises for purposes prescribed in the Act, title to said premises would revert to the Commission, Whereas, the Board had determined that it has no use for that portion of South Hermitage Avenue vacated by said ordinance consistent with the purposes described in the Act, Now Therefore Be It Resolved by The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois, a Public Corporation of the State of Illinois, that the Comptroller and Secretary of this Board be, and they hereby are, authorized and directed to execute, acknowledge, and deliver, in the name of, and in behalf of, this Board and under its corporate seal, a Quit-Claim deed, and other documents in connection therewith as said Comptroller and Secretary may deem necessary or desirable in order to convey to the Commission title to the following described property, viz: T h e west one-half of vacated South Hermitage Avenue lying east of and adjoining the east line of the south four inches (4") of Lot 7 and all of Lots 8 through 16, both inclusive in B. F. Haddock's Subdivision into Blocks 4, 5, and 17 of that part of the east one-half of the southeast one quarter of Section 18, Township 39 North, Range 14 East, of the Third Principal Medidian, set off to the said Haddock in partition of said tract made by order of the Superior Court the 7th day of July, 1859, in Cook County, Illinois. To be used for a pedestrian mall in perpetuity and on the condition that no permanent buildings shall be constructed on the property.